The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

Attractor façade

A parametric rule: every panel of a screen gets an opening sized by its distance from a chosen point.

Attractor façade Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Parametricism

The rules it illustrates

The attractor. Place a point (or curve) in the design and let a property of every element (size, rotation, opening) be a function of its distance from that point.

Where it appears in the book

In the styles Parametricism.

In the chapters The Contemporary.

The terms it shows

Attractor